Former Marine Louanne Johnson (Pfeiffer) lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens

at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind.

When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military

training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost.

2006:

Mike Douglas, the singing voice of Prince

Charming in Disney's Cinderella, passes

away on his 81st birthday in North Palm

Beach, Florida. Originally a big-band singer, Douglas

launched a talk show in Cleveland in 1961. The successful

afternoon show went into national syndication two years

later - going on to make some 6,000 telecasts in all through

1982! In January 1976, The Mike Douglas Show shot

five episodes at Walt Disney World. The daily 90-minute

programs were aired the week of February 9-13. This was

a first for Disney, as never before had an outside company

done shows from Walt Disney World for American television.

Disney Channel first airs episode 42 of Phil of the Future titled "Not-So-Great

Great Great Grandpa," in which Phil finds out that a kid in his school

is actually his great-great-grandfather!

Step Up, a romantic dance film directed by Anne Fletcher starring Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan, is released by Summit Entertainment and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures. Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime (despite vandalizing a performing arts school) when he gets the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming privileged dancer named Nora.

U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and his family (wife Pat and daughters Tricia & Julie) visit Disneyland for the very first time. Along with the Nixons are brothers of Richard and

Pat and their children. Nixon is presented with the "Key to City Hall" by C.V. Wood (a member of Walt's staff)

and meets actor Fess Parker (Disney's Davy Crockett). The Nixons tour Disneyland extensively, riding on such attractions as the Mark Twain Riverboat, the Jungle Cruise, Rocket to the Moon, Autopia, and touring the

to 2000 he portrayed elder brother Eric Matthews on the popular TV sitcom Boy Meets

World (a Touchstone Television production). Cartoon fans will recognize his voice as

Batman in Batman Beyond, as well as appearances in numerous other DC Comics

animated shows.

1962:

Meet Me at Disneyland (a limited TV series broadcast live on KTTV directly from

the Anaheim park) airs episode 10 "This Was the West." The show begins with host Johnny

Jacobs riding on the Disneyland Railroad. His journey is interrupted when bandits stop the train, so he uses the

time to introduce the show’s guests - Tex Williams, The Frontiersmen and Joanie, Hollywood Square Dancers,

and Members of Drum and Feather Club - who are seated in the train’s passenger car. Indian dancers perform

as viewers tour Frontierland. Meet Me at Disneyland is designed to boost park attendance during the

summer weeknights.

Robert R. "Rob" Minkoff, best known for co-directing the 1994 smash hit animated

feature The Lion King (alongside Roger Allers), is born in Palo Alto, California. First

hired by Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1983 as an in-between artist for The Black Cauldron (1985), he later became supervising animator for The Great Mouse Detective (1986), and a character designer for The Brave Little Toaster (1987). Minkoff wrote the song "Good Company" for Oliver & Company (1988), before becoming a character animator for The Little Mermaid (1989). He also directed the 2003 supernatural horror comedy film The Haunted Mansion, based on the Disney theme park attraction.

WDW has made many visible steps in order to be environmentally responsible. They have shown that they are serious when it comes to

being "Green".

1941:

Walt Disney, his wife Lillian and a group of Disney artists, later nicknamed "El Grupo,"

depart California on a goodwill tour of South America. (They will spend a few days in Miami

Beach before heading to Rio de Janeiro to begin their 10-week trip.)

2012:

Hundreds of Disney's most devoted fans turn out for "Destination D: 75 Years of

Animated Features," a two-day event hosted by D23 - the official Disney fan club, at

the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, California. The event features appearances by people who have

created, voiced or modeled for some of Disney's greatest animated features.

August 11

This Day in Disney History - THE FIRST - THE ORIGINAL

Traveling in time since 1999!

2014:

Actor-comedian Robin Williams passes away at his home in Paradise Cay, California.

He is 63. Known to Disney fans as the voice of the Blue Genie of the Lamp in Disney's 1992 Aladdin, he was

also the voice of Timekeeper in the 1992 From Time to Time (which played in the Disney World attraction

The Timekeeper). His role as the Genie (which earned him a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor)

was instrumental in establishing the importance of star power in voice actor casting. Williams also starred in Touchstone's 1987 Good Morning, Vietnam, Hollywood Pictures' 1996 Jack, Disney's 1997 Flubber, and the 2009 Disney comedy

Old Dogs, the same year he was inducted a Disney Legend.

The first, of what will be 4 shorts, of an upcoming animated series titled Star Wars Rebels airs with "The Machine in the Ghost". The series will be previewed throughout August 2014

with a set of shorts introducing the main characters before the television film pilot episode premieres on Disney

Channel on October 3, 2014.

2016:

Disney’s first Latina Princess, Elena of Avalor, makes her debut at Walt Disney World. The Disney Parks Blog host a live stream of the "Elena of Avalor Royal Welcome" at the Magic Kingdom.

(She is the star of Elena of Avalor a computer-animated adventure television series that premiered this past July.)

1983:

Actor Chris Hemsworth is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Fans of the Marvel

Cinematic Universe know him as Thor in such feature films as Thor (2011), The Avengers (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2017), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).

2013:

The 3rd and final day of the 2013 Disney Expo takes place in Anaheim, California.